Irrigating-nozzle.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER HAYS COLES, OE TROY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SKINNER IRRIGATION COMPANY, OF TROY, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

IRRIGATING-NOZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed March 13, 1911. Serial No. 614,075.

To all wfiomit may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER HAYS Cones, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Irrigating Nozzles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in nozzles, and particularly to nozzles used in connection with irrigating systems such, for instance, as that illustrated in Letters-Patent No. 614,507 dated November 22, 1898.

An object of my invention is to provide means for readily determining the proper alinement of the nozzles with respect to each other on the supply pipe with which they are connected; the particular type of nozzle to which this improvement is applicable being one in which the water is directed froin the nozzle at an angle to the longitudinal axis thereof as more fully explained hereinafter.

The invention consists in the constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of an irrigating nozzle of a well known type showing my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a short section of a Water supply pipe with the nozzle indicated in Fig. 1 applied thereto,

together with the alining devices employed in connection therewith. Fig. 4 is a view of a tool employed in connection with my improved nozzle for inserting and alining the same.

Like parts are represented by similar characters of reference in the several views.

In the said drawings, referring to Fig. 1, there is shown a nozzle of a type which is in common use in connection with the system of irrigation referred to above, this nozzle having a screw-threaded portion which is screwed into the water supply pipe 8, the stem 2 projecting into the pipe and having one or more perforations 3 to receive the w ater, which is directed against the deflector 4 so as to convert the solid stream into the form of a spray directed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle; this nozzle being more fully described in Letters Patent No. 868,715, issued October 22d, 1907, to Geo. W. Skinner. Heretofore it has been common to screw these nozzles into the sup ply pipe with the fingers or pliers and remove them when necessary by the same method. This means of inserting and removing the nozzles was not only difficult, but it requires much time and care to so adjust the nozzles that the angular faces 4 of the deflectors 4 are in proper alinement with each other and also exactly parallel to the longitudinal axis of the supply pipe, in order that the streams or sprays of water will not only be directed in a uniform direction, but also in the proper direction with respect to the supply pipe. In order to overcome this difficulty, I have provided the nozzle with a series of angular faces 5, preferably located between the screw-threaded portion and the deflector 4; these angular faces preferably being in the form of a hexagon, as shown in Fig. 2, but any suitable number of faces may be provided. I have preferably so arranged these angular faces that a line drawn between the apices of the angles 5 and 5" will be parallel with the longitudinal axis of the supply pipe; these angles being so disposed with respect to the deflector that when they are so adjusted the deflector will cause the water to be directed in a plane at right-angles to a plane through the axis of the supply pipe.

In Fig. 4 is shown a tool 6 in the nature of a wrench, having angular faces 7 corre sponding to the angular faces of the nozzle. The angular faces 7 are also preferably arranged so that a line drawn between the apices of the angles 7 and 7 would be in alinement with the longitudinal axis of the wrench. The result of this construction is that by inserting the wrench upon the angular faces of the nozzle, the nozzle can be not only easily and quickly tightened, but by simply bringing the longitudinal axis of the wrench parallel with the longitudinal axis of the supply pipe, as shown in Fig. 3, the exact a inement of all the nozzles with respect to each other on the supply pipe is insured.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a system of irrigation, a water supply pipe, a nozzle having a serewthreaded portion insertible in the side of said pipe, 21- deflector rigidly mounted on the nozzle over its terminal so as to deflect the stream issuing therefrom, the deflector face being at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the so that the deflector face lies at a desired position with regard to the supply pipe, comprising angular faces on the nozzle, and a tool having corresponding faces to screw the nozzle into the pipe, whereby the position of the tool will indicate the position of the deflector face with regard to the pipe.

2. In a system of irrigation, a water supply pipe, anozzle having a screwthreaded portion insertible in the side of said pipe, at deflector rigidly mounted on the nozzle over its terminal so as to deflect the stream issuingtherefrom, the deflector face being at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle, and means for adjusting the nozzle so that the deflector face lies at a desired position with regard to the supply pipe, comprising angular faces on the nozzle, and a tool having corresponding faces to screw the nozzle into the pipe, and a handle for the tool, whereby the position of the tool.

handle will indicate the position of the deflector face with regard to the pipe.

- '3; Ina system of irrigation, a water supply pipe, a nozzle having a serewthreaded portion insertiblein the side of said pipe, a deflector rigidly mounted on the nozzle over its terminal so as to deflect the stream issuing therefrom, the deflector face being at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle,

. and means for adjusting the nozzle so that the deflector face lies at a desired position with regard to the supply pipe, comprising angular faces on the nozzle, and a. tool having corresponding faces to screw the nozzle into the pipe, and a handle for the tool, said handle so directioned with regard to its faces that, when it is in parallelism with the pipe, the deflector face will be in a desired position with regard to the pipe.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of March, 1911. 1

VVA'L'IER HAYS COLES.

Witnesses:

W. L. GRAIN, M. T. Rossrrnn. 

